Well well, here I go.
Where to buy book ?
- Your local comics shop
- Buy digitaly: Amazon or Marvel Unlimited are your friends
- Order online: Amazon mainly is your friend
- Buy second-hand: Amazon and Ebay are your friends or your Comics shop
In what format to read your stories ? Well there are multiple formats
- Single issues - 1 issue
- Trade Paperbacks, aka tpb - 3 to 9 issues
- Softcover Omnibus - 9+ issues
- Hard Cover or HC or Library Edition - 6-12 issues
- Hard Cover Omnibus - 12+ issues
I prefer the softcover edition from marvel.
They are at a fair price, not like the Hard Covers.
They aren't heavy and fragile as the big Omnibus.
Thus simple to carrie and read.
Then What to know before reading ?
Well comics have different eras that are all a bit disconnected:
- Golden age - 30's to mid 50's
- Silver/Bronze age - mid-50's to mid-80's
- Modern age - mid 80's to now
Most Marvel series begin in the Silver/Bronze age era.
Depending on each teams and hero, they also have "sub-eras".
To me Marvel has a few distinguishable famillies, even if they a few common adventures:
- Spider-Man / Venom / Spider-Gwen
- Daredevil / Punisher / Elektra
- X-Men / Deadpool / Wolverine
- Fantastic Four / Galactus / Silver Surfer
- Captain America / Hulk / Thor / Iron Man / The Avengers
- Moon Knight
- Ghost Rider
Also to mention, all those heros live on the same univers, but Marvel as some alternative univers:
- Main univers 616
- Ultimate Univers
- Max Univers
After that what to read ?
Well it all depends on your tastes.
But for an easier dive, you should start during the modern age era.
If you want to read the different Marvel series in chronological order - you can check out Marvel's Epic collection:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel...ic_Collections
For a nice start and overview, you can read the mini-series by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, available in tpb or collected edition:
Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale: Yellow, Blue, Gray & White -
https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/...hite_hardcover
Then I would suggest, you read the major stories from each "famillies".
SPIDER-MAN
The Following can be read on their own each
The Very Best of Spider-Man - Compilation of must read early stories
1.Amazin Fantasy #15 - first Siper-Man appearance
2.If this be my destiny... The Final Chapter - Amazing Spider-Man #33
3.Spider-Man no more - Amazing Spider-Man #50
4.The Kid Who Collects Spiderman - Amazing Spider-Man #248
5.Whatever Happened to Crusher Hogan? - Amazing Spider-Man #271
6.The Sand and the Fury - Amazing Spider-Man #317
7.Fathers and Sins - Amazing Spider-Man #365
8.The Osborn Legacy - Spectacular Spider-Man #189
Spider-Man: Wizard Masterpiece Edition - Compilation must read stories
1.Nothing Stops the Juggernaut - Amazing Spider-Man #229-230
2.Hyde in Plain Sight (aka Hyde & Seek) - Amazing Spider-Man #231-232
3.The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man - Amazing Spider-Man #248
4.Venom Strikes Back - Amazing Spider-Man #315-317
5.The Death of Jean DeWolff - Spectacular Spider-Man #107-110
Death of the Stacys - Two sad but very good stories
1.Spider-Man vs. Dr. Octopus/And Death shall come - Amazing Spider-Man #88-92
2.The Night Gwen Stacy Died - Amazing Spider-Man #121-122
Kraven's Last Hunt (Epic Collection) - Collects Spider-Man/Wolverin, The Wedding and the aclaimed Kraven's Last Hunt
Birth of Venom - The main Venom stories
Brand New Day
The Gauntlet and Grimm Hunt
Book 1 - Electro & Sandman - The Amazing Spider-Man #612-616, Dark Reign: The List - Amazing Spider-Man + Web of Spider-Man #2 Electro + Sandman origins
Book 2 - Rhino & Mysterio - The Amazing Spider-Man #617-621 and Web of Spider-Man (vol. 2) #3-4 Rhino and Mysterio origins
Book 3 - Vulture & Morbius - The Amazing Spider-Man #622-625 + Web of Spider-Man #5-6 origins of Vulture and Morbius
Book 4 - Juggernaut - The Amazing Spider-Man #626-629 + #229-230 (the original "Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut)
Book 5 - The Lizard - The Amazing Spider-Man #630-633 + Web of Spider-Man #6
Grim Hunt - The Amazing Spider-Man #634-637 + Web of Spider-Man #7 + Grim Hunt Prologue + Spider-Man Origin Of The Hunter
Big time and Spider Island
Big Time - Amazing Spider-Man issues #648–651
Spider Island - Amazing Spider-Man issues #666–673, Venom #6–9
Others
Ultimate Spider-Man: Death of Spider-Man
Superior Spider-Man
Spider-Verse
Back in Black
All-New Ultimate Spider-Man: Miles Morales
DAREDEVIL
1.
Dardevil by Klause Janson & Frank Miller - 3 tpb or 1 omnibus
2.
Daredevil: The Man Without Fear - 1 tpb or in Frank Miller Companion Omnibus
3.
Daredevil: Born Again - 1 tpb or in Frank Miller Companion Omnibus
3.
Marvel Knights Daredevil by Smith & Quesada: Guardian Devil
4.
Marvel Knights Daredevil by Bendis & Maleev: Underboss
X-MEN
No real reading order
X-Men: Wizard Masterpiece Edition - Compilation of must read early stories
1. X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga - Uncanny X-Men #135-137
2. Days Of Future Past - Uncanny X-Men #141-142
3. The Power of Proteus - Uncanny X-Men #126-128
4. Demon - Uncanny X-Men #143
X-Men Season 1 - a good origin story
God Loves Man kills - a very nice one-shot
E is for Extinction - from New X-Men by Grant Morrison
Astonishing X-Men by Whedon and Cassady Ultimate Collection - a very nice run
X-Factor By Peter David: The Complete Collection vol. 1-2 - another very nice run
Wolverine and the X-Men by Jason Aaron - 1 omnibus or 8 tpb
Wolverine: Old Man Logan - the book by Mark Millar
others
House of M
Messiah Complexe
Avengers vs. X-Men
Trial of Jean Grey
FANTASTIC FOUR
Fantastic Four: Behold... Galactus! - Collects the 4 Gallactus sagas
THE AVENGERS
Captain America: Man Out of Time - by Mark Waid
Civil War - by Mark Millar
Winter Soldier By Brubaker: The Complete Collection - by Ed Brubaker
Hulk: The End - The End + Future Imperfect #1-2
Planet Hulk
Iron Man: Demon in a Bottle
Iron Man: Extremis
Iron Man: Enter the Mandarin
The Infinity Saga
1. Silver Surfer: Rebirth of Thanos - aka The Thanos Quest
2. Infinity Gauntlet
3. Infinity War
4. Infinity Crusade
MOON KNIGHT
Moon Knight Epic Collection: Bad Moon Rising - great orgins by Doug Moench
Moon Knight by Jeff Lemire & Greg Smallwood - Moon Knight (2016) #1-14
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